• John Pope (May 7, 1749 – August 13, 1802) was a Virginia planter and politician who represented Prince William County, Virginia in both Houses of the...
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    and the third Governor of Arkansas Territory. Pope was born near Bristow in Prince William County, Virginia in 1770, the first son of the former Penelope...
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    Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus II; Polish: Jan Paweł II; Italian: Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła, Polish: [ˈkarɔl ˈjuzɛv vɔjˈtɨwa];...
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    John Washington (1633 – 1677) was an English-born merchant, planter, politician and military officer. Born in Tring, Hertfordshire, he subsequently emigrated...
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    Neck of Virginia, as did Humphrey Pope and James Pope, probably his brothers. Both this man's parents had been born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, as had...
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    Daniel Pope Cook (1794 – October 16, 1827) was a politician, lawyer and newspaper publisher from the U.S. state of Illinois. An anti-slavery advocate,...
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    William Duval was born to Major William Duval and Ann Pope in "Mansfield," Henrico County, Virginia (near present-day Richmond). At the age of 14, he left...
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    James Pinckney Pope (March 31, 1884 – January 23, 1966) was a Democratic politician from Idaho. He was mayor of Boise for four years and a one-term United...
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    John Williams Walker (August 12, 1783 – April 23, 1823) was an American politician, who served as the Democratic-Republican United States senator from...
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    John Breckinridge (December 2, 1760 – December 14, 1806) was an American lawyer, slave-owning planter, soldier, and politician in Virginia and Kentucky...
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    Augustine Washington (category People from Westmoreland County, Virginia)
    Westmoreland, Virginia, he was the father of ten children, among them the first president of the United States, George Washington, soldier and politician Lawrence...
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    Washington family (category English-American culture in West Virginia)
    County, Colony of Virginia. Samuel Washington (1734–1781) was a colonial American officer and politician in Popes Creek (Virginia). John Augustine Washington...
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    Huntsville, Alabama in 1817, the son of John Williams Walker and Matilda Pope, and a grandson of LeRoy Pope. He was educated by private tutors, then...
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    Polish–Lithuanian politician (b. 1612) 1655 – Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politicians and Roundheads supporter (b. 1586) 1673 – Oliver St John, English...
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    States from 1797 to 1801 John Adams (Virginia politician) (1773–1825), Mayor of Richmond, Virginia John Adams (New York politician) (1778–1854), Congressman...
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    Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, Italian pronunciation: [euˈdʒɛːnjo maˈriːa dʒuˈzɛppe dʒoˈvanni paˈtʃɛlli]; 2 March 1876 –...
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  • Lawrence Washington (1659–1698) (category People from Westmoreland County, Virginia)
    (September 1659 – February 1698) was a colonial-era Virginia planter, slave holder, lawyer, soldier and politician. He was the paternal grandfather of George Washington...
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    secretary of state under President John Adams, and a representative, in the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia, thereby making him one of the few...
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    of John Russell Pope designed Broad Street Station, or Union Station, in the Beaux-Arts style, and it now is home to the Science Museum of Virginia. The...
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    Robert records that the pope asked Western Christians, poor and rich, to come to the aid of the Greeks in the East: When Pope Urban had said these and...
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    National Monument History of Popes Creek, Virginia National Register of Historic Places listings in Westmoreland County, Virginia Stratford Hall Plantation...
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    His father, Robert Gray, was originally from Glasgow who emigrated to Virginia as a loyalist, then later moved to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, who moved to...
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  • Ludwell Lee (category Politicians from Fairfax County, Virginia)
    prominent patriot, politician and planter Richard Henry Lee. His Lee ancestors had founded one of the First Families of Virginia, as well as speculated...
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    architectural model maker Theodore John Conrad (1949–2021), American fugitive Theodore Debs (1864-1945), American politician Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945),...
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    after Nathaniel Pope, a politician and jurist from the Illinois Territory and State of Illinois. The first permanent settlement in future Pope County was established...
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    NCAA Publishing Service. 1920. pp. 41, 69, 27, 67. Pope 1955, p. 8 Kordic 2007, p. 9 "1923 West Virginia Mountaineers Schedule and Results". sports-reference...
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  • fighter and boxer, acute leukaemia. Frank Ruff, 75, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1994–2000) and Senate (2000–2024), kidney...
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    Kristina Keneally – politician John Kennedy – politician Justin Madden – former Australian rules footballer and state politician Simon Madden – former...
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  • Burying ground. 1818 – Dr. John Brockenbrough, Scottish-born president of the Bank of Virginia, builds a house in Court End. 1820 Pope Pius VII establishes...
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  • Joe Manchin, U.S. Senator from West Virginia (2010–present), Governor of West Virginia (2005–2010), West Virginia Secretary of State (2001–2005) William...
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